Mathematician Quotes

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

A person who can, within a year, solve x - 92y = 1 is a mathematician.

The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God.

Asked if he believes in one G-d, a mathematician answered: "Yes, up to isomorphism".

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.

I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.

One can always reason with reason.

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.

Am I really a good mathematician?

I'm a mathematician because I'm too slow to be a writer.

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus

The library is the mathematician's laboratory.

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?

Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it.

My interests started about in science and in mathematics, I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.

Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!

Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.

[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.

Nobody listens to mathematicians.

2+2=5 wasn't intentional. I thought you carry a 1 every time there are two 2's in an equation. I'm not stupid, the mathematicians is stupid

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being a concert pianist.

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

I have created a new universe from nothing.

A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye.